Patagonia : Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth /

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Prieto, Alfredo (Editor ), Borrero, Luis Alberto (Editor ), McEwan, Colin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Natural history.
Indians of South America.
TRAVEL > South America > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Sciences naturelles > Patagonie (Argentine et Chili)
Natural history > Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
Indians of South America > Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
South America > Patagonia.
Patagonie (Argentine et Chili) > Descriptions et voyages.
Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword by the Ambassadors of Argentina and Chile to the United Kingdom / Pfirter, Rogelio / Artaza, Mario
  • Introduction / McEwan, Colin / Borrero, Luis A. / Prieto, Alfredo
  • THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • KEY DATES AND EVENTS
  • 1. The Natural Setting The Glacial and Post-Glacial Environmental History of Fuego-Patagonia / McCulloch, Robert D. / Clapperton, Chalmers M. / Rabassa, Jorge / Currant, Andrew P.
  • 2. The Peopling of Patagonia The First Human Occupation / Borrero, Luis Alberto / McEwan, Colin
  • 3. Middle to Late Holocene Adaptations in Patagonia / Mena, Francisco
  • 4. The Origins of Ethnographic Subsistence Patterns in Fuego-Patagonia / Borrero, Luis Alberto
  • 5. The Great Ceremonies of the Selk'nam and the Yamana / Chapman, Anne
  • 6. The Meeting of Two Cultures Indians and Colonists in the Magellan Region / Martinic B., Mateo
  • 7. The Patagonian 'Giants' / Duviols, Jean-Paul
  • 8. Travelling the Other Way Travel Narratives and Truth Claims / Beer, Gillian
  • 9. Tierra del Fuego
  • Land of Fire, Land of Mimicry / Taussig, Michael
  • 10. Patagonian Painted Cloaks / Prieto, Alfredo
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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